There are dozens of similar copyright lawsuits working through the courts right now, with cases filed against all the top players—not only Anthropic and Meta but Google, OpenAI, Microsoft, and more. On the other side, plaintiffs range from individual artists and authors to large companies like Getty and the New York Times. The outcomes of these cases are set to have an enormous impact on the future of AI. If not, they will need to start paying for such training data via new kinds of licensing deals—or find new ways to train their models. “This is not a class action, so the ruling only affects the rights of these 13 authors—not the countless others whose works Meta used to train its models.